We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxie...ties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth... Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed By the imprisoning of unruly wind Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving, Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down Steeples and moss-grown towers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagi...nation.--For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »